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Lance Weiler

In his keynote speech at DIY Days in New York earlier this month, self-proclaimed “story architect” Lance Weiler trumpeted transmedia storytelling as an “opportunity to lay story across the real world in a way that’s never been possible.”

On purely technical terms, he’s right: A single story can be told around the world instantaneously in various media. Examples abound: Wieden & Kennedy’s Old Spice campaign with its use of online video, TV spots, and social media; the use of games and live events for The Dark Knight; and the sprawling epic that was BMW’s The Hire. Weiler himself IDed other tools in the transmedia arsenal: geolocation and the improving technology of near field communications or NFC.